{"id":2345,"date":"2026-02-01T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:06:32","slug":"hale-telescope-on-mount-palomar-began-operations-in-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar Began Operations in 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11754\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11754\" class=\"wp-image-11754 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Hale-Telescope-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hale Telescope<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar began operations in 1949<\/strong>. Named after George Ellery Hale, the 200-inch reflecting telescope was the largest of its kind. Located near San Diego, California, the telescope is still in use. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/palomar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hale Telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar began operations in 1949. Named after George Ellery Hale, the 200-inch reflecting telescope was the largest of its kind. Located near San Diego, California, the telescope is still in use. Children can learn more at: Hale Telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5269,618,5267,3657,3655,3656,5270],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5269","tag-california","tag-february-1","tag-george-ellery-hale","tag-hale-telescope","tag-mount-palomar","tag-san-diego","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29104,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/29104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}